us, who invited us in. We came to help and we all achieved the goal we set out to achieve, which was to keep the president in power and sort of fight off the insurgents such as they were. Does Takayev come out of this situation with more power and with his position more firmly entrenched? And what does this mean for Kazakhstan going forward? Yes, I would say Takayev comes out very much with more power since he successfully fought off the challenge, what really did look like an attempted coup. Before I just talk about those domestic implications, it's also worth mentioning, of course, that he does now owe Russia one. He owes Putin one. So let's see when Putin calls that in. From that point of view, he's weaker, I would say, weaker, certainly in his relationship with Russia. And of course, it's already a very unequal relationship. The domestic implications are absolutely kind of earth-shattering, actually. And these are very interesting times in Kazakhstan. Because the first president, (35/39)
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